Posted on 04/11/2021 4:53:25 PM PDT by DennisR
Not just Baltimore. These idiots destroyed the peace of the whole state and the moron governor did nothing to stop it.
What happened to Baltimore after Freddy Gray?
This is going to be disastrous. Just as Colorado and New York have all but eliminated Qualified Immunity for LEOs, this will have some serious ramifications.
And for those that want to go bananas saying the cops shouldn’t have Qualified Immunity, understand what it is before you start going off. And....as someone that was a cop, I’ll be the first to call one out for doing some dirty sh*t.
Very true, but going after drugs isn’t one of them. And I used to do those types of warrants for drugs. There’s no reason for them. Of course, there are narcotics folks that would argue that until they pass out, but a perp flushing drugs down the toilet or throwing them in hot oil, just ain’t that big a deal and not worth the potential for violence that they can sometimes lead to.
Believe it or not, many jurisdictions do not like SWAT units serving drug warrants as they tend to use different tactics and techniques that are counter to what the narcotics folks want.
There defense attorneys that don’t want the cops to wear them anymore, believe it or not.
Police body cameras are capturing so much footage it’s driving some defense attorneys to quit
ACLU Stand Against the Use of Body Cameras
The ACLU sent an 11-page letter in early September to federal officials, criticizing the adoption by the LAPD of body cameras for use by the city’s police officers and urged them that the program should be defunded. The ACLU letter indicated that the use of body cameras by the LAPD would make automatic recordings of events occurring to the public, thus violating a person’s right to privacy and the practice would undermine “the goals of transparency, accountability and creation of public trust that body-worn cameras should serve.”
A San Diego Body Cameras Example
San Diego and Rialito programs were early users of body cameras in Southern California. Working with a researcher from Cambridge University they discovered that the results of using body cameras resulted in an 88% decline in complaints against police officers and a 60% decline in police officers’ use of force.
In the San Diego Police Department, officers were wearing body cameras in at least two separate shootings earlier in the year. Because the public was not permitted access to the body camera footage, a heated controversy resulted. The stance of the SDPD is that once footage from body cameras become part of an investigation, they don’t have to release the footage to the public.
This raises the question about the public’s ability to view footage from body cameras under the freedom of information laws. Would releasing the footage really hamper any investigation by the police? Other relevant questions and concerns exist, such as whether police officers should use the video for both holding police officers accountable as well as for crime investigations? Should police officers be permitted to turn their body cameras off? Should video from body cameras be released in order to be used on TV and social media? What is the length of time footage from body cameras should be kept? And who should have access to the body camera footage?
Ask the police unions. They are the ones that fight the use of dash and body cams.
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